[Microsound-announce] HeardHub2 - June 17-18

[chad vollrath]

thanks to all the microsounders for help/inspiration w/ this project

HeardHub2: A Collaborative Soundscape Reconfiguration

Where: Pittsburgh, PA @ Artists Upstairs 911 Penn Avenue

When: Friday 6pm-12am and Saturday 12pm-6pm

Who: Carbon Defense League & Friends

For HeardHub2, three performers will reconstruct soundscape elements into a 
composition in real time, from sounds recorded to the HeardHub database 
using mobile devices.  Audience members, friends, and people walking by 
will be able to call a number from their cell phone to record sounds from 
anywhere in the city.  These sounds are stored in the HeardHub database, 
and the performers will use the sounds as raw materials for a 
composition.  The composition will develop based on the sounds that users 
contribute from their mobile devices.  In short, you call the MapHub phone 
number, record a sound through your phones receiver, and the sound is then 
worked into the soundscape composition.  Users need to register their phone 
number with MapHub so that they can access the phone system.  This can be 
done at <http://www.maphub.org/>http://www.maphub.org

HeardHub2 is the second sonic experiment made possible by the MapHub web 
application.  MapHub researches the introduction of a geographic and 
historical data sharing application into an urban landscape. MapHub is a 
peoples' map - a map of an urban geography determined not by traditional 
methodology but instead by the members who participate in and contribute to 
the everyday experiences of urban life. MapHub is both a tool and a 
platform that gives users pen and paper to record their unique and situated 
perspectives and to deliver that documentation to others.

The first HeardHub project is currently installed in Karslruhe, Germany at 
the ZKM Center for Art and Media.  For this project, Carbon Defense League 
collaborated with artist Greg Baltus to create MapMover.  MapMover is a 
robotic mechanism that uses two computer controlled servo motors to move an 
LED behind a translucent wall-mounted map of Pittsburgh in two dimensions, 
playing back sounds from the MapHub HeardHub. The sound playback time 
occurs relative to the time the sound was recorded during a twenty-four 
hour day, but is condensed and looped into a period of two hours for the 
purpose of the exhibit.